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How to list console and kernel fonts?
I have a number of console fonts installed in /lib/kbd/consolefonts/ installed.
How do I list them (obviously all I can do, is just look at the filenames, but not at a list at available fonts).
How ...
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Graphical console applications in Emacs
I am having trouble running htop within an ansi-term in Emacs 24.2. It looks like some of the control characters are not interpreted correctly.
I thought ansi-term was capable of handling font ...
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Setting Framebuffer splash resolution when exiting X
I installed a copy of BackTrack 5 R2 (Ubuntu 10.04) to my HDD and dual-booted with Windows 7. After a bit of tweaking I set about updating the native Intel drivers because it was only allowing me to ...
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How do I let an SDL app (not running as root) use the console
I want to use an SDL-based program to display graphics on the console, without having to log on from the console, and without running the program as root. For example, I want to be able to run it via ...
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Scrambled Xen Console on dom0
I installed Xen using the recommended procedure on Ubuntu's site using motherboard Supermicro X7SBL-LN2 and Ubuntu 13.04 amd64. After the installing it and rebooting my console looks like this: ...
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vi hangs when run in /dev/console under LXC
I'm running an Arch Linux container from within lxc. The lxc-start command connects to the internal /dev/console, on which I have agetty running using the following command:
/sbin/agetty --noclear -a ...
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Debian Console Font with Nvidia Drivers?
On my Debian Squeeze (6.x) installation my system had a nice small login shell font (terminus??) but after installing the nvidia drivers for my machine it boots up using a very chunky font (on a 24 ...
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Change terminal resolution on Whiite (Wii Linux)
Is there a way to change the terminal resolution in Whiite (Linux for Wii)? All the answers I can find suggest editing grub configuration, but Whiite uses a custom bootloader instead of grub.
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Virtual TTY jumps to the next on launching from the Openbox menu
When I launch a terminal from my Openbox menu my virtual terminal TTY jumps to the next CtrlAltF12 slot.
It seems that this problem appeared after I wanted some more than 7 TTYs and added some to ...
